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🎶36 degrees and it's getting hotter🎶 (lemmy.nz)
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[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

Upfront, absolutely. But cost drop dramatically with life time of the plant.

Even over the lifetimenof a plant, nuclear is by far the most expensive form of power generation.

That's wrong. Nuclear Power Plants are incredibly safe. The security standards are immense and if everything is done by the books, nothing will happen.

Yet no insurance company will insure an NPP. They are uninsurable.

We've gotten really damn good at reusing burnt out fuel rods. I think we're able to reuse like 60% of the burnt out fuel rods, dramatically lowering the waste we produce. And I once read about a theoretical processing method that could be able to reuse 95% of the rods, making the waste almost negligible.

We already do have a huge problem storing the waste we don't have and nuclear waste is too dangerous to rely on hypothetical reusability. Germany's federal Ministry for Nuclear Safety released a report in 2015 estimating the total cost of dismantling and managing nuclear waste from german NPPs based on 2012 prices and not including the cost of disposal facilities to be aroun 6 billion Euro until 2080.

We don't fulfill the requirements for widely used renewable power. […] 100% renewable energy is never going to be a thing for germany.

It is though. First thing you miss ia that Germany does not have an isolated power grid. In fact, the Conrinental European Synchronous Area is one of the largest synchronous electrical grids in the world.
Second, the number of available batteries is constantly growing with fun concepts as using your electric car's battery for overnight electricity. Every home can have sufficient battery storage individually (even without BEVs).
Third, there are still massive capacities for wind parks and solar parks all over Germany and certain concepts can even help mitigating certain consequences of climate change already in effect, like agriphotovoltaic protecting crops.

The future is renewables. Nuclear is superfluous, too expensive and too much hassle.

Btw, here is more to read on why nuclear is not a solution (german website): https://quellen.tv/energie#Kernkraft